Archive - Nov 20, 2010
FOSTER — Bad timing may best describe Ponaganset High’s move up to the Division II ranks this season.
Behind a talented core of players that included a pair of all-staters in Nick Keeling and Josh Morgan, the Chieftains captured the last two of the past three Div. III crowns to convince the alignment committee that it was time for a move to the higher division.
BURRILLVILLE — Gennaro Ferraro looks back on his football team’s frustrating season with a mixture of realism and pragmatism.
“We lost four games by a total of 11 points,” the Burrillville coach was saying earlier this week. “We lost Tyler Kimatian to an auto accident and two other key players left the team due to disciplinary issues. And Brendan Darigan missed 2 ½ games with a sprained ankle.
WOONSOCKET – Pat Dempster is busy getting ready for next week’s holiday dinner at the Because He Lives Soup Kitchen on Blackstone Street but she’s not too pressed to say thank you to the kitchen’s long-time benefactors.
The benefactors were out in force at Terry’s Tire and Auto at Monument Square recently and once again generated a significant boost of support for the kitchen’s annual operating costs.
LINCOLN — Dave Waycott is currently bouncing around the same dilemma 14 other playoff-bound head coaches around the state are pondering as they prepare for their respective Thanksgiving matchups.
“Do you play (your players) to keep them sharp or rest them to avoid getting hurt?” the Lincoln head coach asked. “I’ve been going back and forth with this. I haven’t really decided what we’re going to do when we play them.”
Roland Lavallee was getting a little itchy.
After an almost two-month layoff from competitive running, he was anxious to know how his 100-mile weeks of pounding the pavement had paid off.
The 32-year-old Lavallee satisfied that itch last month when he hopped into his car and made the 45-minute drive to Newport.
